Ramparts Quotes

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic. - Franklin D Roosevelt

The underlying logic is that we cannot further integrate and consolidate as an economic bloc if we do not secure the ramparts of our own neighborhood. - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

If a Democratic administration had pursued the fiscal policies and put the nation in the fiscal posture it's now in, the business community would be outraged and on the ramparts. They're getting benefits, but they're also very concerned that if they are perceived to be opposed to the administration's policies, there will be a cost to pay in terms of direct adverse impact on their corporate interests. - Steny Hoyer

I think there's a greater awareness of people interested in parks to see that they're preserved in perpetuity so that fu ture generations . . . don't have to continue going back to the ramparts every few years to protect them. - Charles Price

I think there are some people on the right who keep some distance from him, because they regard him as still radical. The techniques we developed at Ramparts live on. We deliberately tried to be provocative -- we went for the jugular, we could be nasty with our opponents. - Sol Stern